Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

edoc · Posted: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 20:11 Post subject:

Anyone tried the many games posted here under 4.2?

Just upgraded two laptops and a desktop from 4.12 to 4.2

edoc · Posted: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 21:59 Post subject:

OK, the children have a more specific immediate request - SuperTux.

I have at least 4 versions - which would be best to install under 4.2, please?

supertux-0.1.3-i486-1.tgz
supertux-0.1.3.x86.package...
supertux-0.3.0-nogl-0.1.4502.x86.package...
SuperTux.pet

The laptop I'd most like it to run on is an old Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 which is WAAAY faster under 4.2 but hs limited resources: mobile Pentium MMX (System Info says 265.27MHz 531.16 BogoMips), 158MB ram

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2539 Location: Montenegro

SuperTux.pet should work if you have SDL installed
Ver, 0.3 is developmental still, I did manage to run 0.3.1 from debian packages, but it needed lots of dependencies. Still, once installed it worked smooth.

edoc · Posted: Wed 08 Apr 2009, 15:44 Post subject:

I have 5 SDL's.

One includes the word "image" in the name, two include "mixer" in the names.

There is one simple SDL.pet, is that the one I should use?

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2539 Location: Montenegro

I use this one:
SDL-1.2.9.pet

edoc · Posted: Wed 08 Apr 2009, 16:09 Post subject:

OK, now I will have 6 of them! Smile

Thanks, will grab that and give it and the SuperTux.pet a try together.

edoc · Posted: Wed 08 Apr 2009, 23:03 Post subject:

It worked! Thanks!

"OpenGL not supported" so no sound ...

Fine with me as it gets old real fast but if they put on headphones they prefer the sounds.

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2539 Location: Montenegro

You should have sound I think, check if you can turn it on in options.

edoc · Posted: Thu 09 Apr 2009, 10:23 Post subject:

Our youngest is asking for SuperTux 2, he says it is a lot more fun (he has played it online), is that available?

edoc · Posted: Thu 09 Apr 2009, 10:23 Post subject:

The "opengl" error came up in Options - the Sound icon is greyed-out and unavailable due to that problem.

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2539 Location: Montenegro

For opengl you need to install xorg dri from petget manager, and for supertux 2, well, I managed to run it on puppy from converted debian packages, but it had many dependencies, if I manage to pack all in sfs or couple or dotpets and upload it I'll post it here but I don't promise anything Smile

edoc · Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009, 13:47 Post subject:

PETget package manager kept freezing my old Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 so I went to a network cable.

Got into PETget but there is no listing that begins with xorg or dri

??

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2539 Location: Montenegro

must be at the very end of the list
xorg_xorg_full_dri-7.3
or here's direct link:
xorg dri for puppy 4.x

edoc · Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009, 14:10 Post subject:

Nope, it is not in there in the Puppy 4 area - perhaps it needs to be added?

Thanks for the direct link!

edoc · Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009, 17:32 Post subject:

All sorts of hassle for some reason trying to get this xorg dri loaded but finally succeeded.

Just tried it and no impact on the opengl error message in Options is the same.

Then I rebooted and now am stuck in an xorg loop - cannot get into x. Sad

Seems that the xorg dri app broke my xorg install in 4.2